Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food + CD [J0223]

2009 - PB Nice clean condition. CD included still sealed. Practiced for centuries in the Zen tradition, mindful eating is an approach that involves bringing one's full attention to the process of eating--becoming fully present to the tastes, smells, thoughts, and feelings that arise during a meal. Dr. Bays offers a wonderfully clear presentation of what mindfulness is and how it can help to create a healthier relationship with food. Apply mindfulness to your relationship with food and you may be surprised to find that eating becomes a source of joy--instead an angst-ridden activity haunted by nutritionally based guilt, calorie-counting, and even more serious problems like eating disorders. For nearly a decade, Jan Bays's guide to eating mindfully has been transforming people's relationship with food--and based on her continued work with those people as well as new data emerging on the topic, she has created this significantly revised and refined version of the original, which contains even more essential information on mindful eating, as well as inspiring new examples from her workshop participants.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Good overview of the subject. Who knew there were 7 different kinds of hunger?! Really helpful book."; "This book was jam-packed with information. The author used to be a doctor and lived in a monastery, so there's a lot of medical info and studies in addition to some discussion on spirituality. I learned a lot about the body and how our relationship with eating is formed systemically from the culture in which we are raised. So far this book has helped me take a step back and look at my eating habits in a more beneficial way than diet culture ever has."; "The overall tools and knowledge she shares about mindfulness and how she connects it to food through life spans is pretty simple to understand for anyone reading and is enlightening."